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out-

prefix

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- From Middle English ut-, from Old English ūt- (“out, without, outside”) (also as ūta-, ūtan- (“from or on the outside, without”), as in ūtanweard (“outward, external”)), from Proto-Germanic *ūt- (“out-”). Cognate with Dutch uit-, German aus-, Swedish ut-, Icelandic út-. More at out.

  1. inherited from *ūt-✻
  2. inherited from ūt-
  3. inherited from ut-

Definitions

  1. External to, on the outside of

    • outback
    • outhouse

  2. Toward the outside of, away from

    • outcast
    • outlead
    • outflee

  3. Forms verbs with the sense of surpassing or exceeding the prefixed word. This…

    Forms verbs with the sense of surpassing or exceeding the prefixed word. This construction is productive.

    • outdo
    • outlast
    • outmaneuver
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Greater than

      • outsize
      • outrun
      • outgrow

    2. Beyond

      • The plant's leaves outgrew their box

    3. Completely

      • outfit
      • outwork

The neighborhood

  • synonymex-outside
  • synonymexo-outside
  • synonymecto-outside
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  • antonymend-antonym(s) of “outside”
  • antonymendo-antonym(s) of “outside”
  • antonymento-antonym(s) of “outside”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for out-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA